NEW: FOI requests reveal NHS Wales used unverified 'family concerns' to stop trans surgeries
Faith Elisabeth Lilley
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@sianberry.bsky.social case in point. It's just cruelty.
Faith Elisabeth Lilley@stormknight.bsky.social · 4w ago@england.nhs.uk just published new formal guidance telling hospitals to put transgender patients in wards based on their “biological sex”. That means they’re now putting trans women in men’s wards, and trans men in women’s wards, regardless of their personal circumstance or how vulnerable they are.
@england.nhs.uk just published new formal guidance telling hospitals to put transgender patients in wards based on their “biological sex”. That means they’re now putting trans women in men’s wards, and trans men in women’s wards, regardless of their personal circumstance or how vulnerable they are.
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DOTS RPG Project@dotsrpg.org · 2mo agoHi friends! We wanted to take a minute to talk about something we experience as a small nonprofit - missing out on partnerships or fundraising opportunities because we’re not big enough. While we understand people may not want to take a chance on us, it makes it harder to grow 🧵
BBC describing one of the UK's largest ever protests as being only attended by "Thousands". And argues that protesting the EHRC is nonsense claiming that "it was intended to allow people to live free from discrimination and harassment". More coverage than the last few but that doesn't mean better.
Thousands attend London Trans+ Pride 2026 march
The march takes place against a political backdrop that organisers described as "stark".
bbc.co.uk
Over 150,000 came out in full force for London Trans+ Pride to say loud and clear: Trans rights are human rights 💖
The @bbc.co.uk.web.brid.gy is a deeply transphobic organization dedicated to promoting dishonest propaganda. Don’t pay your TV licence. I got rid of my TV 14 years ago and have never regretted it for a second.
This is absolutely it - all of the key mechanisms and policies that have led to transmisic and authoritarian laws, are all still going to be there. They're literally just changing the cover of the packaging.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ@sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 5mo ago‘do you *want* reform to win?!’ no. what i want is for the labour party to lose and then burn to the ground. i didn’t hate keir starmer. i hated his government and that’s not being changed. they literally jus giving his government a bad hair cut and a dye job.
Gender Critical Transphobia really is a brain rot cult. I've blocked so many people today for shouting "trans women are men" at me in my comments, like they're achieving something profound. 🙄
What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
nature.com
Gender Critical Transphobia really is a brain rot cult. I've blocked so many people today for shouting "trans women are men" at me in my comments, like they're achieving something profound. 🙄
It's much akin with the gleeful references people make about the scale of prison rape against trans women when they're incarcerated. It's not satisfaction at justice or a threat averted. It's joy. Mirth. Inhumans used as toys for their entertainment.
I should dig out my old posts from other platforms where I said this is what would happen. Oh wait, that wouldn't help. Oh well.
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN@scherawyss.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
"The NHS has chosen to centre a clear and overwhelming belief that a child growing into a trans adult is an unsatisfactory outcome — even at the cost of that child’s wellbeing; even at the cost of their life."
UnicornsRockUK@unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 5mo ago"International trans health bodies express “deep concern” for NHS ban on HRT for under-18s" XXX www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
im 42 years old and during that time the country hasn't had a single left wing government. not once. it's been an endless stream of increasingly bigoted and extremist thatcherism.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 5mo agoUK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch admits she’ll make Farage PM if Reform come close. In an interview with The Spectator: “This country cannot have another left-wing government.” A fascist one is okay though.
We are delighted to say that our letter to the leaders and our elected representatives got a response, and that it was so timely! It's quite an in-depth response, and I don't think we can cover literally everything, but we're happy with the response we got.
Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
UKSC says it’s impossible to be deprived of liberty if you lack capacity. I say it’s impossible to have liberty in a jurisdiction where all our freedoms exist only at the grace of this marauding gang of tyrants.
Given that disabled people have today received the same treatment from the SC, this is especially well timed. We stand together or fall together. We need better disabled facilities and we do not need us trans people taking them, when we have been using the loos of our gender for a very long time.
Disability Rights UK@disrightsuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
I made it to @ukge.bsky.social so here's the annual car park selfie. Traffic was fine and I only had to queue for ten minutes for the car park. If you're there and you'd like to catch up, message me - I have time this afternoon and I'll be presenting the official networking event from 8pm.
We've read the new Code of Practice. Here's what you need to know.
The Code of Practice: what you need to know | Good Law Project
The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. Here’s what that means.
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cis people you gotta make sure that it's very clear that you don't have any problem having trans people in the toilet with you or changing next to you or in your sports club or whatever and that the people that do have a problem are really fucking weird and creepy
honest pikachu enjoyer 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸@webway.bsky.social · 6mo agofuck the ehrc i'm a woman i'm biological i'm a biological fucking woman and there is no justification for excluding trans folks from single-sex services or spaces. if you think there is, fuck off into a pit
1/🧵 The EHRC draft Code misstates the law and incites “bathroom bounty law” actions against service-providers. It recommends but does not demand segregation of trans people.
It's much more than a toilet ban. Here's the summary. Please share far and wide, this needs to be stopped #LabourBathroomBan #TransSegregation
So the EHRC just decided to effectively repeal the Gender Recognition Act on a Thursday afternoon, then go on holiday. WTF?
![2.49 The Supreme Court in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (For
Women Scotland) [2025] UKSC 16 has ruled that a GRC does not change a
person’s legal sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. The judgment
held that ‘sex’, ‘woman’ and ‘man’ mean, respectively, biological sex, biological
woman and biological man for the purposes of the Equality Act. The judgment
uses the expression ‘biological sex’ to describe the sex of a person at birth.
The phrase ‘biological sex’ has the same meaning when used throughout this
Code. This is also referred to as ‘sex at birth’ in this Code.
2.50 This means that, in relation to the Act, a person’s sex remains their biological
sex, whether they have a GRC or not. For example, a trans man with a GRC is a
woman and a trans woman with a GRC is a man, for the purposes of the Act.
2.51 This Code only relates to the application of the Equality Act 2010. It does
not deal with the implications of the For Women Scotland judgment for the
application of section 9 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to any other
legislation.
2.52 A trans person will be protected from discrimination because of gender
reassignment, whether they have a GRC or not.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d6kh7vfdnkvxfujempyasetw/bafkreiehjm7xjd2u3xwhgwjdnzx4knn6bnit4otp3afjxwvlsqhaqomkaq)
Reading this it's rarely hit harder to me how disconnected amnesty are from grass roots hate researchers. This is a great report in that amnesty have a lot of weight but there's so much information amnesty seem to just not know